|
Rank
|
Artist
|
Album
|
Label
|
|---|
| 1.
| Daft Punk | Random Access Memories | Daft Life/Columbia |
| 2.
| Tricky | False Idols | False Idols/!K7 |
| 3.
| The National | Trouble Will Find Me | 4AD |
| 4.
| Camera Obscura | Desire Lines | 4AD |
| 5.
| Deerhunter | Monomania | 4AD |
| 6.
| Vampire Weekend | Modern Vampires of the City | XL |
| 7.
| Kurt Vile | Wakin On A Pretty Daze | Matador |
| 8.
| Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Mosquito | Interscope |
| 9.
| Queens of the Stone Age | Like Clockwork | Matador |
| 10.
| !!! | Thr!!!er | Warp |
| 11.
| Savages | Silence Yourself | Matador |
| 12.
| Phoenix | Bankrupt! | Glassnote |
| 13.
| The So So Glos | Blowout | Shea Stadium |
| 14.
| Mikal Cronin | MCII | Merge |
| 15.
| Big Eyes | Almost Famous | Grave Mistake |
| 16.
| Majical Cloudz | Impersonator | Matador |
| 17.
| Alice Russel | To Dust | Tru Thoughts |
| 18.
| Free Time | Free Time | Underwater Peoples |
| 19.
| Small Black | Limits of Desire | Jagjaguwar |
| 20.
| Daughter | If You Leave | Glassnote |
| 21.
| Thee Oh Sees | Floating Coffin | Castle Face |
| 22.
| Classixx | Hanging Gardens | Innovative Leisure |
| 23.
| Big Deal | June Gloom | Mute |
| 24.
| Shuggie Otis | Inspiration Information + Wings of Love | Epic/Legacy |
| 25.
| Tullycraft | Lost In Light Rotation | Magic Marker |
| 26.
| (Various) | After Dark 2 | Italians Do It Better |
| 27.
| James Blake | Overgrown | Republic |
| 28.
| Major Lazer | Free the Universe | Secretly Canadian/Mad Decent |
| 29.
| Saturday Looks Good To Me | One Kiss Ends It All | Polyvinyl |
| 30.
| Portugal. The Man | Evil Friends | Atlantic |
| 31.
| MS MR | Secondhand Rapture | Columbia |
| 32.
| Still Corners | Strange Pleasures | Sub Pop |
| 33.
| The Pastels | Slow Summits | Domino |
| 34.
| Young Fathers | Tape Two | Anticon |
| 35.
| John Grant | Pale Green Ghosts | Partisan |
| 36.
| The Thermals | Desperate Ground | Saddle Creek |
| 37.
| Junip | Junip | Mute |
| 38.
| Steve Mason | Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time | Double Six |
| 39.
| (Various) | Garage Swim | Adult Swim |
| 40.
| AM & Shawn Lee | La Musique Numerique | Park The Van |
| 41.
| Joseph Arthur | The Ballad of Boogie Christ | Lonely Astronaut |
| 42.
| Fitz and the Tantrums | More Than Just A Dream | Elektra |
| 43.
| YAST | YAST | Adrian |
| 44.
| (Various) | Kitsune America 2 | Kitsune |
| 45.
| Rogue Wave | Nightingale Floors | Vagrant |
| 46.
| Foals | Holy Fire | Warner Bros. |
| 47.
| Ever So Android | EP | self-released |
| 48.
| Hanni El Khatib | Head In The Dirt | Innovative Leisure |
| 49.
| Eleanor Friederger | Personal Record | Merge |
| 50.
| The Flaming Lips | The Terror | Warner Bros. |
| 51.
| Gypsy & The Cat | The Late Blue | Alsatian |
| 52.
| Bibio | Silver Wilkinson | Warp |
| 53.
| Palma Violets | 180 | Rough Trade |
| 54.
| Baths | Obsidian | Anticon |
| 55.
| Wavves | Afraid of Heights | Rodeo/Mom+Pop/Warner Bros. |
| 56.
| Art Vandelay | Eye 8 The Crow | self-released |
| 57.
| The Purrs | The Boy With Astronaut Eyes | Fin |
| 58.
| Don't Talk To The Cops! | Champions Of Breakfast | self-released |
| 59.
| Golden Gardens | Narcissus | Neon Sigh |
| 60.
| The Knife | Shaking The Habitual | Mute |
| 61.
| Laura Marling | Once I Was An Eagle | Ribbon/Domino |
| 62.
| Femi Kuti | No Place For My Dream | Knitting Factory |
| 63.
| Akron/Family | Sub Verses | Dead Oceans |
| 64.
| Houndmouth | From the Hills Below the City | Rough Trade |
| 65.
| Wild Nothing | Empty Estate | Captured Tracks |
| 66.
| JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound | Howl | Bloodshot |
| 67.
| (Various) | Twitch and Gloam: Dark Sounds from the Pacific Northwest | Flat Field |
| 68.
| Gold & Youth | Beyond Wilderness | Arts & Crafts |
| 69.
| IO Echo | Ministry Of Love | IAMSOUND |
| 70.
| The Black Angels | Indigo Meadow | Blue Horizon |
| 71.
| Land of Pines | The Long Defeat | Fin |
| 72.
| Cali Giraffes | All My Life | Fin |
| 73.
| Pickwick | Can't Talk Medicine | self-released |
| 74.
| The Cave Singers | Naomi | Jagjaguwar |
| 75.
| Vondelpark | Seabed | R&S |
| 76.
| The Baptist Generals | Jackleg Devotional to the Heart | Sub Pop |
| 77.
| Iron and Wine | Ghost on Ghost | Nonesuch |
| 78.
| Wolf People | Fain | Jagjaguwar |
| 79.
| When Saints Go Machine | Infinity Pool | !K7 |
| 80.
| Charles Bradley | Victim of Love | Daptone |
| 81.
| Phosphorescent | Muchacho | Dead Oceans |
| 82.
| The Child of Lov | The Child of Lov | Double Six |
| 83.
| Kastle | Kastle | Symbols |
| 84.
| Jason Isbell | Southeastern | Southeastern/Thirty Tigers |
| 85.
| Dungeonesse | Dungeonesse | Secretly Canadian |
| 86.
| Yellowbirds | Songs from the Vanished Frontiers | The Royal Potato Family |
| 87.
| Dirty Beaches | Drifters/Love Is The Devil | Zoo |
| 88.
| (Various) | What's Up Seattle: Mixtape No. 2 | What's Up Seattle |
| 89.
| Slaid Cleaves | Still Fighting the War | Music Road |
| 90.
| Laura Mvula | Sing To The Moon | Columbia |